Louisiana is finalizing a plan to move thousands of people from areas threatened by the rising Gulf of Mexico, effectively declaring uninhabitable a coastal area larger than Delaware. A draft of the plan, the most aggressive response to climate-linked flooding in the U.S., calls for prohibitions on building new homes in high-risk areas, buyouts of homeowners who live there now and hikes in taxes on those who won’t leave.
Comment on Louisiana plan could move thousands from coast
Christopher Flavelle - Bloomberg News, Portland Press Herald
Fri, 12/22/2017 - 7:16pm
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